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Scroll through the "new New York Skyline" with this interactive infographic

2015-11-17T19:20:00-05:00

Evidently, the Big Apple is packed with big buildings, and several more are on the way. National Geographic created a spiffy interactive infographic called "The New New York Skyline" that envisions which towers are sprouting up along the Manhattan skyline in the next few years. Scroll sideways and hover your cursor over the color-coded towers to read some factoids about these newcomers. You can also switch from "Skyline View" to 3-D view for spots like the One World Trade Center Complex, Hudson Yards, and "Billionaires' Row" at 57th Street Corridor.

Screenshots via National Geographic.

Check out the graphic here.

More infographics on Archinect:

Infographic: the cheapest and most expensive countries to live in

Budget Busters: ranking the world's most overbudget monuments

Where are the women? Measuring progress on gender in architecture

35 of the world's palaces gathered into one quaint, interactive infographic

The true costs of sprawl

2015-03-05T14:04:00-05:00

How much more does it cost the public to build infrastructure and provide services for sprawling development compared to more compact neighborhoods? A lot more, according to this handy summary from the Canadian environmental think tank Sustainable Prosperity. To create this graphic, the organization synthesized a study by the Halifax Regional Municipality [PDF] in Nova Scotia, and the research is worth a closer look.

Where are the women? Measuring progress on gender in architecture

2014-10-03T13:00:00-04:00

The farther up you look in the world of architecture, the fewer women you see. In this chart, we’ve rounded up some common and publicly available metrics behind this claim. Like thousands of aspiring architects, we’ll start at the bottom and work our way up—while also pausing on the way to consider what these measures mean.

Lian Chikako Chang, ACSA's Director of Research + Information and prolific Archinect blogger, has created a series of infographics charting the progress of women's roles in architecture. The statistics are, at a glance, both depressing and hopeful: compared to overall representation in the population, women occupy a disproportionally tiny slice of architecture's higher tiers, but the numbers do seem to be increasing over time.

Check out all the infographics in our image gallery below. Lian also posted an in-depth look at the infographics over at the ACSA blog, showing how the data was sourced and analyzed.

Mapping the city, statistic by statistic

2014-07-21T17:19:00-04:00

The map, one of the central elements of navigation, has expanded in capability since the form has been translated to digital. Case in point, the MIT Media Lab’s “You Are Here” project is a collection of maps that visualize a variety of datasets over space. Things from bike accidents to coffee shops, graffiti reports, and transit connectivity are all laid out, using a variety of open data and other online resources, such as Google’s map directions services API.

Direct link to You Are Here.

35 of the world's palaces gathered into one quaint, interactive infographic

2014-06-26T14:19:00-04:00

Although it can't compare to experiencing their grandeur in real life, Movoto gives a snapshot of 35 of the world's most recognized palaces in one interactive infographic. The Movoto team created the graphic and focused on analyzing palaces to catch a glimpse of the power, wealth, the rich history, and the architectural styles of various countries.

Hovering over the infographic displays each palace's dimensions (to scale, based on pixels), descriptions, resident, and current status.

See the full infographic here.

2014 SMIBE - NOT SO BIG DATA challenge opens March 28

2014-03-24T19:33:00-04:00

Tell your story about the built environment as a one-minute moving infographic for the 2014 SMIBE Moving Infographic Competition, "NOT SO BIG DATA".

Starting this Friday, you can submit a moving-image story that investigates, explores, and of course can entertain the design community about the social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues that should be discussed -- all within 60 seconds.

Submissions should not exceed 1 minute in duration and can be produced in any motion image medium. Entry is free.

Participants -- whether individually or in groups -- may submit entries on Vimeo beginning March 28, 2014 and ending May 16, 2014. All entries must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on May 16, 2014.

The winner will receive a cash prize of $250.

To learn more, visit smibe.net.

"Graphing Parking" charts out of whack U.S. minimum parking regulations

2013-08-28T13:38:00-04:00

Reforming parking policy is an urgent imperative which could have significant positive effects on the natural environment, our cities, the economy, and our society. For many issues, from affordable housing to carbon emissions, it is an obvious solution that has remained hidden in plain sight for too long.

Architect Seth Goodman has taken it upon himself to expose how dramatically parking plays a role in planning, through a series of nifty infographics that show just how much parking space is allotted for a given institution or destination. Inspired by Donald Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking as a student at Rice University, Goodman has created five different charts comparing a city’s minimal parking space regulations to the square footage of the institution that the parking accommodates, such as a restaurant or office space. The results show an amazing inconsistency regarding how much space is devoted to parking across different cities.

In the above graphic, pitting “Worship Space vs. Parking Space”, the national average for a worship space (6,000 ft2) is compared to the square footage devoted to parking at said space of worship. Fresno, California clocks in at 32,500 ft2 of parking for an average worship space, whereas San Francisco has only a tenth of that, at 3,250. Ke...